A plain read of what he talks about, what he is for and against, and what his Stamford record adds. Every sentence below can be checked against a quote or a vote further down this page.
Electricity is what Amiel Goldberg talks about most. Six of the thirty statements we found from him are about it — the charge on your bill, the way the utilities buy power, the grid, the nuclear power station, and the power that AI data centres would use. Housing is next, with five. Nine of the thirty mention a cost, a tax or a dollar figure.
He wants the public benefits charge taken off electric bills and paid out of the state budget instead. He wants the nuclear power station kept running longer, and the grid modernised. He is for accessory dwelling units — small second homes on a family’s own lot. He is wary of a gas tax holiday, because of the money the state would stop collecting, and he says he does not know how the gap would be filled.
His Stamford record tells you less than it looks like it does. Stamford’s minutes name who voted yes, who voted no and who abstained, so all three sides are printed, and he is named in 248 of the 1,131 votes the board took between January 2022 and September 2026 — yes 149 times, no 86 times, abstaining 13. But most of those votes do not say what they were about: on 188 of the 248, the motion reads like “a motion to approve Item No. 5”, with the subject left in an agenda line the vote sentence never repeats. Of the 60 that do name a subject, 25 are about how the board runs its own meetings. So the record shows how often he voted far better than it shows what he voted on.
What he has not said matters too. Nothing was found from him on grocery prices, on rent, or on seniors. On health insurance he says the health care cost curve has to come down, and nothing was found on premiums or on what a family pays for coverage.
He wants the public benefits charge taken off electric bills and paid for out of the state budget instead.
Goldberg said the public benefits charge ought to be moved to the state budgets and away from rate payers’ bills.
He wants the state’s nuclear power station kept running longer instead of closing.
We’re going to retire a nuclear power station in the not too distant future. Its life needs to be expanded.
He says the costs that have to come down are health care and childcare.
It’s about bending down the health care cost curve. The childcare cost curve.
He points to Stamford budgets he says kept tax increases near 2 percent.
responsible budgeting that kept tax increases near 2%
He is wary of a gas tax holiday, because of the money the state would stop collecting.
Goldberg said the gas tax holiday worried him because it results in a loss of $300+ million a year in revenue.
He is for accessory dwelling units — a small second home on a family’s own lot — and says they help with affordability.
ADUs move the affordability issue and build a strong community through multi-generational family units,
He says picking fights with Hartford over housing makes it harder for a town to keep control of what gets built.
Antagonizing people in Hartford over housing policy doesn’t really give them a lot of confidence to let us control our own destiny,
He points to the nearly $60 million Stamford has saved toward its building program.
The City of Stamford has saved nearly $60 million toward our building program.
A city legislature sets a mill rate and a budget. It does not set grocery prices or insurance premiums. Where the record is silent the row says so plainly, because dropping the issue would read as though it had been covered. Because 188 of 248 named votes state no subject, silence on a row is not evidence that he did not vote on it.
| Issue | What the city record shows | What he has said |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity and energy bills | No named position. 2 vote events in the minutes carry a motion naming this subject, and none of them names him. | 6 statements — reported, his own words |
| Health insurance premiums | No vote in this record has a motion naming this subject. 188 of his 248 named votes state no subject at all, so a vote on it cannot be ruled out. | 1 statement — his own words |
| Groceries and the cost of living | No vote in this record has a motion naming this subject. 188 of his 248 named votes state no subject at all, so a vote on it cannot be ruled out. | 2 statements — campaign platform, his own words |
| Property taxes and the city budget | 6 named votes: 3 for, 3 against, 0 abstained; 1 on a motion to cut | 6 statements — campaign platform, reported, his own words |
| Housing costs and supply | 1 named vote: 0 for, 0 against, 1 abstained | 5 statements — reported, his own words |
| Schools | 5 named votes: 4 for, 1 against, 0 abstained; 1 on a motion to cut | 3 statements — campaign platform, his own words |
| Seniors | No vote in this record has a motion naming this subject. 188 of his 248 named votes state no subject at all, so a vote on it cannot be ruled out. | Nothing found. No statement of his on this was located. |
His positions, each labelled by the kind of source it comes from and
linked to it. His own words are quoted, or posted under his name and dated.
Campaign platform is copy on his campaign’s platform page — a stated
position, but not a remark he is on record making. Reported is a reporter’s
characterisation, not his words. None of this is a voting record and none of it is
evidence of how he voted. 12 sources were searched; what each returned is listed in data/positions.json.
Goldberg said the public benefits charge ought to be moved to the state budgets and away from rate payers’ bills.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
Goldberg said AI data centers can be required to generate their own energy.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
Above all, Goldberg said it was very important to modernize the grid.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-16 · source
I do believe that is a hidden tax of sorts. It’s a regressive tax,Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
We’re going to retire a nuclear power station in the not too distant future. Its life needs to be expanded.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
I don’t think it’s smart to critique hedging programs by looking in the rear view mirrorGreenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
Goldberg said there were some good opportunities in 8002, and he could be the “voice in the room.”Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
The solutions for one can’t be overlayed on the other. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a lot from each other.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-07-01 · source
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to do it rightGreenwich Free Press · 2026-07-01 · source
Antagonizing people in Hartford over housing policy doesn’t really give them a lot of confidence to let us control our own destiny,Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
ADUs move the affordability issue and build a strong community through multi-generational family units,Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-16 · source
Fostering stronger partnerships between local businesses and schools to drive economic growth and educational excellence for every student.Goldberg for CT149 (campaign website) · undated · source
Why did she vote no on a home schooling bill designed to protect students from abuse in an unregulated home education system?Greenwich Free Press · 2026-07-01 · source
The City of Stamford has saved nearly $60 million toward our building program.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-16 · source
Sound state finances as the federal government shifts more responsibilities onto states and municipalities.Goldberg for CT149 (campaign website) · undated · source
Goldberg said the principles behind the state’s financial guardrails remained sound.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
we can use some of that financial capacity to take the place of the $2 billion in federal funding that is going to be cut from our state.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
Goldberg said the gas tax holiday worried him because it results in a loss of $300+ million a year in revenue.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
responsible budgeting that kept tax increases near 2%Stamford Patch · 2025-10-17 · source
I don’t know how we’d fill the gap. It’s also kind of a sugar high.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
Healthcare that people control for themselves — including the full protection of reproductive rights.Goldberg for CT149 (campaign website) · undated · source
I’m a Democrat because I align with the core values: pro-choice, reasonable gun controlGreenwich Free Press · 2026-07-01 · source
Improving transit options for all residentsGoldberg for CT149 (campaign website) · undated · source
Does anybody think it’s fair that when you drive through MA, NY and NJ, they toll the heck out of us, but we give them our roads for free.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
I don’t understand how the daughter of a doctor could vote no for making vaccines more affordable and accessibleGreenwich Free Press · 2026-07-01 · source
Properly controlled, it will be life changing for all of us.Greenwich Free Press · 2026-10-11 · source
| Year | Floor votes | He is named on | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 244 | 84 | 34% |
| 2023 | 246 | 79 | 32% |
| 2024 | 206 | 41 | 20% |
| 2025 | 268 | 33 | 12% |
| 2026 | 167 | 11 | 7% |
149 for · 86 against · 13 abstained. Each carries the verbatim line from the minutes.
Present at roll call in 67 of the 73 meetings whose roll call could be read. Recorded absent or excused at 4, and at 2 more the minutes record him joining after the roll call was taken — 11 further meetings have no parsable roll call and are left out have no readable roll call.
| Meeting | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-08-03 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-07-06 | absent_or_excused | source · p.1 |
| 2026-06-01 | absent_or_excused | source · p.1 |
| 2026-05-20 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-05-07 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-05-04 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-04-06 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-03-02 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-02-02 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2026-01-05 | present | source · p.1 |
| 2025-12-01 | present | source · p.1 |
19 distinct items he submitted or co-submitted. 7 of those 19 he submitted alone; the rest he joined other members in bringing forward.
Amiel Goldberg has represented District 13 on Stamford's Board of Representatives since he was first elected in November 2021, taking 1,206 votes in a three-way race won alongside running mate Eric Morson (CT Secretary of the State results). He was re-elected in November 2025 with 1,169 votes — a figure reported by Patch, which the state's own results database does not yet carry (Patch). He also sits on the city's Water Pollution Control Authority as the Board's designee, in a second term running to 2029 (WPCA roster), and is a former member of the Board's Personnel and Redistricting committees. He is the endorsed Democratic candidate for the 149th House District in 2026, challenging Republican incumbent Tina Courpas (Greenwich Free Press); his committee is registered with the state and has been awarded a Citizens' Election Program grant (SEEC).
He spent roughly three decades in finance and risk: investment banking at UBS Securities, Chief Risk Officer at GE Asset Management, executive consultant at IBM Global Business Services, and heading a quantitative risk and liquidity platform in BNY Mellon's corporate treasury. He is now mostly retired and does contract consulting — note that the Board's own member page still lists BNY Mellon as his current occupation, which is out of date. He holds a B.S. in finance and management science from the University of South Carolina and an M.S. in financial risk management from the University of Connecticut (official biography; Greenwich Free Press).
He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina and has lived in Stamford's Westover neighbourhood since 2007. Outside elected office he has been vice president of Temple Sinai Stamford, vice president and treasurer of the United Jewish Federation of Stamford, Darien and New Canaan, a trustee of the Stamford Jewish Community Centre, and treasurer of the Stillmeadow School parent-faculty organisation (official biography).
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